Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

[Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl>]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:35:35PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

||  also sprach Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> [2003.07.05.2130 +0200]:
||  > Honestly, I don't know.  I got the package from an 'apt-cache
||  > search' upon seeing this ITP, because it surprised me that we
||  > wouldn't already have a tool in the archive that can handle
||  > .ico's.  (Actually, we have two -- one for creating them, and one
||  > for extracting them.)
||
||  I didn't find it. Anyhow, I'll wait for a couple of days anyway,
||  let's see what others say. The tool is quite nice, I have to say.
||  Straight forward and simple, and it works...

There was some talk about windows ico utilities in December.  This was
about packaging png2ico.

I mentioned then that winicontoppm and ppmtowinicon from the netpbm
package could already do the job.

Icoutils was mentioned then too.

I think one of the then available packages can make multi-image .ico
files, because I remember having done that with standard installed
packages.

The bug number is 173050.

I have not rechecked the current status of the packages involved.

Ciao.                                                         Vincent.